This paper uses cross-national data from happiness surveys, jointly with data on per capita income and pollution, to examine how self-reported well-being varies with prosperity and environmental conditions.

What does it take to be a leader in a global economy? In the face of the current worldwide economic slump and recent international upheaval, this question has become increasingly difficult to answer. This volume explores the role of leadership in light of globalization and changing economies. With the help of renowned experts like Rosabeth Moss Kanter and C. K. Prahalad, readers will learn how to be strong leaders in an unpredictable world.

The objectives of this study are to estimate the economic impact of over-invoiced/under-invoiced Russian imports/exports from/to the U.S and to determine if capital movement/capital flight through trade is due to money laundering, tax evasion or some sort of portfolio consideration.

Journal Article written by Ronald Schill

In spring of 2003, ten teams of MAP students were selected to work on a special project (xMAP) with Prof. C.K. Prahalad (Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business), to document how companies across the world were working successfully to provide products and services and improve the living conditions of the poorest of the poor. Along with written case studies, each team also produced a video documentary of the companies and the people they serve. The cases and videos created have helped change global development policy at the State Department, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

"Business Education in Emerging Market Economies" discusses the impact of business education on emerging markets and explores curricular innovation, pedagogical approaches, and strategic alliances in the context of industrializing economies. Emerging markets contain 80% of the world's population and some 75% of its trade growth in the foreseeable future, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. The potential economic growth of these emerging markets has prompted a need to understand their dynamics, business institutions and educational systems. Many American universities, for example, have responded to the demand of their students and business partners by educating them about the exciting opportunities and lurking threats in these industrializing economies. This book contains multiple chapters designed to educate American students about the curricular innovations and course development occurring in emerging markets.

The Journal is recognized as the pre-eminent academic journal in the rapidly expanding field of Asian business studies. It serves as a unique means of communicating new ideas and analysis across different academic disciplines, between scholars and businesspeople, and among contributors and subscribers from all over the world. In scope, it covers all of Asia, focusing on business, management, economics, political economy, economic and business history, development studies, and comparative and cross-cultural studies of relevance to the dynamic world of Asian business. In addition to scholarly articles dealing with all aspects of business in Asia, the Journal also published research reports, conference reports, reviews of books and other educational materials, interviews with and addresses by business leaders in Asia, and information on electronic data sources. Once a year, the Journal also publishes a special issue, devoted to exploring a single topic in greater depth. Recent special issues have included the Evolution of Asian Business Systems, Human Resource Management in Asia, and Overseas Chinese Business Networks. The Journal is released three times per year.

Although many firms label themselves "global", very few handle worldwide sales and operations. This book demonstrates that most multinationals are in fact strongly regional and that only a tiny percentage of the world's top 500 companies sells and/or delivers globally. Alan Rugman exposes the facts behind the popular myths of doing business globally, explores a variety of regional models and offers an authoritative agenda for future business strategy.

Innovation and technology clusters have become one of the key success factors of world-class regions in their search for manufacturing and R&D foreign direct investment. This paper constitutes a preliminary effort to canvass the existing resource base and platform from which Alabama can leverage its relative competitive advantages in key technologies that are likely to drive the technological race at the dawn of the twenty first century. This paper therefore allows the reader to begin defining the rough outlines of a competitive profile, conceivably instrumental in crafting a state-level strategy for foreign direct investment targeting.

Innovation and technology clusters have become one of the key success factors of world-class regions in their search for manufacturing and R&D foreign direct investment. This paper constitutes a preliminary effort to canvass the existing resource base and platform from which Georgia can leverage its relative competitive advantages in key technologies that are likely to drive the technological race at the dawn of the twenty first century. This paper therefore allows the reader to begin defining the rough outlines of a competitive profile, conceivably instrumental in crafting a state-level strategy for foreign direct investment targeting.

Innovation and technology clusters have become one of the key success factors of world-class regions in their search for manufacturing and R&D foreign direct investment. This paper constitutes a preliminary effort to canvass the existing resource base and platform from which Mississippi can leverage its relative competitive advantages in key technologies that are likely to drive the technological race at the dawn of the twenty first century. This paper therefore allows the reader to begin defining the rough outlines of a competitive profile, conceivably instrumental in crafting a state-level strategy for foreign direct investment targeting.

Innovation and technology clusters have become one of the key success factors of world-class regions in their search for manufacturing and R&D foreign direct investment. This paper constitutes a preliminary effort to canvass the existing resource base and platform from which North Carolina can leverage its relative competitive advantages in key technologies that are likely to drive the technological race at the dawn of the twenty first century. This paper therefore allows the reader to begin defining the rough outlines of a competitive profile, conceivably instrumental in crafting a state-level strategy for foreign direct investment targeting.

Innovation and technology clusters have become one of the key success factors of world-class regions in their search for manufacturing and R&D foreign direct investment. This paper constitutes a preliminary effort to canvass the existing resource base and platform from which Alabama can leverage its relative competitive advantages in key technologies that are likely to drive the technological race at the dawn of the twenty first century. This paper therefore allows the reader to begin defining the rough outlines of a competitive profile, conceivably instrumental in crafting a state-level strategy for foreign direct investment targeting.

Innovation and technology clusters have become one of the key success factors of world-class regions in their search for manufacturing and R&D foreign direct investment. This paper constitutes a preliminary effort to canvass the existing resource base and platform from which Tennessee can leverage its relative competitive advantages in key technologies that are likely to drive the technological race at the dawn of the twenty first century. This paper therefore allows the reader to begin defining the rough outlines of a competitive profile, conceivably instrumental in crafting a state-level strategy for foreign direct investment targeting.

Financial media is replete with stories of "culture clashes" marring M&A deals. We investigate the effect of cultural distance on long-term performance of acquisitions by studying cross-border acquisitions. We explore different factors affecting the long-term performance of cross-border M&A with a special focus on cultural distance between the countries of the two firms. Using a sample of over 400 cross-border acquisitions in the period 1991-2000, we find that contrary to general perception, cross-border acquisitions perform better in the long-run if the acquirer and the target come from countries that are culturally more disparate. We use the Hofstede measure of cultural dimensions to define cultural distance and also examine alternative measures such as language, religion and legal origin to capture cultural differences. The positive "cultural distance effect" persists after controlling for several deal-specific variables and country-level economic variables and corporate governance; and is robust to alternative specifications and horizons of long-term performance. Among deal characteristics, cash acquisitions tend to perform better in the long-run.

Clusters have been under study by researchers across the world as a new way of developing entrepreneurial firms that lead to new job creation and significant increases in local wealth. Many local, regional, state and country governments also now use either cluster development or their presence as an economic development tool by encouraging new small firm entrants into established or growing markets. The authors have observed that few studies survey existing firms about the nature of the presumed cluster they operate in and the impact of its presence on their firm development and growth. This study reports on the results of a UK/US study of wholesale and retail firms.

Anti-Americanism in Brazil

On the 30th anniversary of the G8, the responsibility for hosting the Summit falls into the hands of an allegedly unilateralist America, still reeling from the shock of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks, the resulting economic recession, and the bitter divisions with its NATO allies and disappointments with the United Nations institutions over the 2003 Iraq war. This book addresses the core question of why America needs the G8. It offers new perspectives on the Group of Eight major market democracies, quite different than the prevailing ones which see the G8 either as a forum for partners to bind a unilateralist, hegemonic America, or for American-centered financial and corporate interests to impose a world order in their interest on the world. In contrast, this work suggests that a now vulnerable America might need the G8 as a central instrument of foreign policy to achieve its security, economic and political interests in the world, and shape the twenty-first century global order it wants. ISBN 0 7546 4477 4

Technology, communication and, most importantly, the Internet have made trade in services a global and nearly seamless phenomenon. Organizations in the developed countries, especially the United States, have taken advantage of this evolutionary change to integrate organizational processes by sourcing services across borders. The strong growth in the service sector, coupled with the tendency of U.S. firms to move service activities to cheaper, more efficient locations, has resulted in the recent acceleration of this trend. The increase in the offshoring of service activities and fears about the resulting migration of American jobs overseas will continue to draw nationwide attention.

Funded by Purdue Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), the Purdue Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures annually publishes "Global Business Languages." Volume Ten contains eleven articles written by leading language pedagogy researchers from major universities that discuss innovative practices and perspectives in business language education.

This research volume includes a synthesis of recent advances in the theory of the multinational enterprise (ME), with a focus on internalization and international diversification (ID) issues. It proposes important extensions of ME theory, especially as regards the importance of geography to multinational strategy, and the linkages between internalization and ID. The book also introduces the study of various new topics in IB research, namely regional (as opposed to global) strategy analysis, global alliances that lead to alliance specific advantages, and environmental aspects of international strategy.

This volume explores the drivers of cross-border trade and the forces underlying the expansion of the border from the nation to the regional trade area. The findings cast some doubts on the practicality of striving for a more globalized trade system through costly and time-consuming trade rounds populated by a myriad of players and their agendas and conflicts.

This report annually provides a comprehensive examination of business conditions in Latin America, a 33-country region comprising a global market of nearly 500 million inhabitants. The 50-page report combines text and tables to track socio-economic trends and analyze recent developments that currently shape the outlook for Latin American markets. Within the context of the report, the business environment consists of government policies regulating economics and business, global and regional external impacts on Latin America and internal Latin American economic, social and political conditions.

This series of packets on business-related topics was developed for advanced high school language learners. While "business language" courses have proliferated at the college and university levels for the past 25 years, the interest in business language has not been as vigorous at the high school level. Those who teach business language in post-secondary settings have been invigorated by the natural compatibility of business-related topics with students' interests in careers and the world of work. It seems only natural, therefore, that high school students would be equally attracted to the content presented in business language classrooms. We partner with CLEAR - The Center for Language Education and Research at MSU.

The focus of this study is ranking the market potential of 27 countries identified as an "Emerging Market" by The Economist magazine. The index, which has been published annually on globalEDGE by MSU-CIBER since 1995, uses a number of market growth indicators to determine the attractiveness of emerging markets. The on-line, interactive rankings allow users to rank emerging markets on the basis of any of the eight dimensions comprising the overall index, thus allowing for extensive customization.

Brazilians Working With Americans presents ten short case studies that effectively illustrate many of the cultural factors that come into play when North American business professionals work in Brazil. The authors summarize each case and the aspects of culture it involves, and American and Brazilian executives comment on the cultural differences highlighted by that case. A list of topics and questions for discussion also help draw out the lessons of each business situation. To make the book equally useful to Brazilians and Americans (whether businesspeople or language students), the entire text is presented in both English and Portuguese.

The globalEDGE team at MSU-CIBER has been publishing a monthly newsletter since February 2002. Each issue includes an in-depth look at a featured country, current international business news, information on recent additions to the globalEDGE website, and other international business content. All issues are available in an archive.

Overview of San Diego State University's 2006-07 accomplishments in international business education, research, and outreach.

On paper, the Dominican Republic is one of most dynamic countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Last year the economy of this country of 9 million people, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, expanded at 10 percent. Politically the Dominican Republic is seen as one of the region's most stable democracies. To add to the allure, a free-trade agreement with the United States (DR-CAFTA) took effect in March. This is good news for Florida since the Dominican Republic is one of our leading trading partners.

The Latin American Business Environment Report (LABER) is a one of a kind publication that presents in a single document a straightforward, balanced appraisal of the economic, social, and political events in the past year that have shaped the business and investment climate in Latin America as a region and in its 18 most important economies. The LABER is a publication of the Latin American Business Environment Program in the Center for Latin American Studies. The program draws on the expertise and resources of the University of Florida to prepare students for careers related to Latin American business through degree programs, training courses and study abroad opportunities. It also organizes topical conferences, promotes the publication of scholarly research and provides professional consulting services for the business community and public.

gBR Overview: The objective of gBR is to be your source for cutting-edge global business knowledge. The main target audience is business executives. gBR articles are distributed to 31,608 people in the gE Network, featuring a new article monthly. Each article is also available FREE to the millions of users of the globalEDGE website. No other journal in international business has gBR's reach and visibility.

an update of SDSU CIBER activities for the 2007-08 academic year

The focus of this study is ranking the market potential of 27 countries identified as an "Emerging Market" by The Economist magazine. The index, which has been published annually on globalEDGE by MSU-CIBER since 1995, uses a number of market growth indicators to determine the attractiveness of emerging markets. The on-line, interactive rankings allow users to rank emerging markets on the basis of any of the eight dimensions comprising the

Single family offices (SFO) are professional organizations dedicated to managing the personal fortunes and lives of very wealthy families. Since the beginning, affluent families have been attracted to SFOs because of their promise of exclusivity, privacy and customization. These characteristics may make SFOs increasingly attractive to the super rich, but they also make it particularly difficult for researchers to understand their operations, their abilities, and their achievements. The very confidentiality they afford impedes assessment of their competence, and there is little comparative information available on the range and key differentiators among SFOs operating today. This report begins to fill this knowledge gap by presenting the results of an international pilot study of SFOs responsible for managing at least US$100 million in investable assets in the Americas, Europe, and Rest of the World (RoW). The research has been conducted during 2006"“2007 and is intended to survey the landscape of single family offices.

Volume 22, Nos. 2-3, Volume 23, No. 1. A special three-issue edition addressing the following themes: Chinese Conceptions of Knowledge in Historical Perspective, Socio-Cultural Specifics of Managing Knowledge in Asian Contexts, Value-Creating Knowledge Management as Organizing Vision, and Knowledge Leadership in Asia. We are currently welcoming manuscripts for our next edition; please email JournalAsianBusiness@umich.edu to submit or for more information.

This cross-continental project is the first comprehensive, global benchmarking study of Family Offices. It involves participants from Europe America, Asia and the Middle East. A key outcome of this study will be creation of useful benchmarks based on the actual practices of single family offices from around the world including operations, management and governance.

Prepared as part of the University of Florida/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department research project on Cuban agriculture in conjunction with funding support from the University of Florida Center for International Business Education and Research.

This annual report, written by CIBER Associate Director Terry McCoy, provides a comprehensive examination of Latin American business conditions. It tracks social, political and economic trends both for the entire region and its 20 largest markets individually.

Sovereign Wealth Funds, the large investment funds supported by governments, are mostly a positive economic force that can provide a shot in the arm to the companies -- and countries -- they invest in. They are also a stabilizing force for the nation where the investment originates. Those are some of the main takeaways from a new study, "The Brave New World of Sovereign Wealth Funds," conducted by Wharton MBA students and sponsored by the Wharton Leadership Center and the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies. The research suggests there is little reason to worry about these funds acting from political rather than economic motives. In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Wharton management professor Mauro F. Guillén, who helped to oversee the research, and two Wharton MBA candidates present some of the study's key findings.

The internship guide provides sample job descriptions, offer letter, employer quotes about interns and student profiles for employers and students seeking interns and internships. The guide is available on the Wharton's student career reasource site as well as on the employer site. The guide is apart of a newly redesigned website that specializes in internship hiring content.

This annual report, written by CIBER Associate Director Terry McCoy, provides a comprehensive examination of Latin American business conditions. It tracks social, political and economic trends both for the entire region and its 20 largest markets individually.

Nearly two years after the financial meltdown of September 2008, is the global economy any less risky? Or do the conditions that led to the crisis still persist? These questions and more were at the heart of a conference titled, "Global Risk: New Perspectives and Opportunities," organized at Wharton by Penn Lauder CIBER (Center for International Education and Research) and Santander Universities. The consensus: We managed to respond to the immediate threats, but the longer-term drivers of instability are still active.

To download the full report: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/download/072011_GlobalRisk_Book.pdf
Or: http://lauder.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/pdf/Global%20TrendLab%202011%20Global%20Risk.pdf
 

The financial meltdown of 2008-2009 and the resulting global recession dealt a painful blow to private equity investing, and the industry is still recovering. In this special report, based on the 2011 Wharton Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference, Knowledge@Wharton examines the industry’s gradual comeback.

To download entire PDF: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/download/062711_PrivateEquity2011.pdf

or http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/special_section.cfm?specialID=114

Nearly two years after the financial meltdown of September 2008, is the global economy any less risky? Or do the conditions that led to the crisis still persist? These questions and more were at the heart of a conference titled, "Global Risk: New Perspectives and Opportunities," organized at Wharton by Penn Lauder CIBER (Center for International Education and Research) and Santander Universities. The consensus: We managed to respond to the immediate threats, but the longer-term drivers of instability are still active.

To download the full report: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/download/072011_GlobalRisk_Book.pdf
Or: http://lauder.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/pdf/Global%20TrendLab%202011%20Global%20Risk.pdf
 

This draft report, written by UF-CIBER–affiliated faculty Dr. Anita Spring and Dr. Robert Rolfe of the University of South Carolina, provides a comprehensive examination of Sub-Saharan Africa business conditions. It tracks social, political, and economic trends both for the entire region and its largest markets individually.

SABER considers the 20 largest GDP countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and organizes them into four regions, West, Central, East and the Horn, and Southern Africa. First, regional summaries highlight the major trends. Then illustrative country reports review for the year's events and data under six categories: political stability, growth and trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), infrastructure and telecommunications, ease of doing business, and health aspects. Finally, tables of indicators and other data document economic, political and social aspects relating to business conditions.

The 2011 Annual Report of the Michigan State University International Business Center is now available online.

Tamper-evident (TE) and tamper-resistant (TR) packaging provide an opportunity for incremental actions which can provide a means to combat counterfeit products, product diversion, shoplifting, cargo theft, return and warranty fraud, and unauthorized refills. This backgrounder provides information on TE and TR packaging including their regulatory definitions, the current and likely future extent of their use, and their applications for brand protection.

This A-CAPPP Backgrounder was released in April 2012.